Example: Deleting a Desktop Shortcut

In this example, we will deploy Mozilla Firefox using the Advanced Application Deployment to ensure that the shortcut will be removed after the installation has completed.

1. Enable Advanced App Deployment

Enabling Advanced Installer

1. Change the Remove Shortcut dropdown to Yes. This will show a new input called "Shortcut Name". Here we need to enter the name of the desktop shortcut for Mozilla Firefox which is "Firefox.lnk". Make sure to include the .lnk which is the extension name for shortcut items.

   

   Setting the shortcut name to be deleted.
2. Deploy the application to Intune.

Install Flow

When deploying Firefox to a device, we can see at first the shortcut is added during the installation. Once the installation has completed it will run the shorcut cleanup script to search the public desktop for the specified shortcut file (in this case Firefox.lnk).

This can help keep the users desktop from becoming cluttered with too many desktop shortcuts. For some applications this may require an initial installation on a test device to confirm what the name of the shortcut is.